On Wednesday, the viciously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage finally released its 2013 tax filings—two days late, in direct violation of federal law. The results are nothing short of brutal. NOM raised $5.1 million last year—a 50 percent drop-off from its 2012 earnings. Two donors accounted for more than half of that money. And the group’s “Education Fund,” which churns out anti-gay propaganda and homophobic calumny, raised less than $1.7 million, a 70 percent decline from 2012. NOM closed out the year more than $2.5 million in debt.

There could, of course, be other factors at play; because the group is so deliberately opaque, we can’t really know if there was a breakdown in leadership. (That purported 2011 putsch against Maggie Gallagher remains shrouded in mystery.) But even if morale is high at NOM today, it won’t stay that way for long. In the near future, NOM’s higher-ups will release that they’re on the brink of officially folding. At that point, they’ll give the piggy bank one last shake, then jump ship for good. The resulting collapse will be pitiable, painful, and pathetic—a finale befitting an organization built on a platform of nothing but hate.

Every time there is some sort of disaster, such as an earthquake, hurricane, or flood, some in the anti-gay crowd blame us and say that we are arousing the Wrath of God. Perhaps we should tell these anti-gay organizations that they are experiencing the Wrath of God for bearing false witness and failing to obey the command to love our neighbors as ourselves. Not that I believe that God works that way, but why not turn their statements against them?

control your optimism here, the National Organization for Marriage may feel a need to hang in there if:

the SCOTUS is now required to rule on marriage equality. Their schedule may bring this court case into the election year or beyond. Reasonable chance this could become an election issue.

if a SCOTUS justice decides to retire or die the current makeup of the court could change against gay rights. The republican congress may choose to block an Obama liberal appointment to the SCOTUS, congress has closed down the government for less.

pellaz saidcontrol your optimism here, the National Organization for Marriage may feel a need to hang in there if:

the SCOTUS is now required to rule on marriage equality. Their schedule may bring this court case into the election year or beyond. Reasonable chance this could become an election issue.

if a SCOTUS justice decides to retire or die the current makeup of the court could change against gay rights. The republican congress may choose to block an Obama liberal appointment to the SCOTUS, congress has closed down the government for less.

If it goes before the Supreme Court, it better be before a future president has a chance to appoint reactionary justices to the Court.

On Wednesday, the viciously anti-gay National Organization for Marriage finally released its 2013 tax filings—two days late, in direct violation of federal law. The results are nothing short of brutal. NOM raised $5.1 million last year—a 50 percent drop-off from its 2012 earnings. Two donors accounted for more than half of that money. And the group’s “Education Fund,” which churns out anti-gay propaganda and homophobic calumny, raised less than $1.7 million, a 70 percent decline from 2012. NOM closed out the year more than $2.5 million in debt.

There could, of course, be other factors at play; because the group is so deliberately opaque, we can’t really know if there was a breakdown in leadership. (That purported 2011 putsch against Maggie Gallagher remains shrouded in mystery.) But even if morale is high at NOM today, it won’t stay that way for long. In the near future, NOM’s higher-ups will release that they’re on the brink of officially folding. At that point, they’ll give the piggy bank one last shake, then jump ship for good. The resulting collapse will be pitiable, painful, and pathetic—a finale befitting an organization built on a platform of nothing but hate.

This group wasn't defending nothing other than its hatred towards other groups of people who don't subscribe to their social agenda. It deserves to go out of existence, the sooner the better. One less group of NARROW MINDED BIBLE THUMPING SCREWBALLS polluting the air with their archaic logic.

What a surprise -- another Conservative group that spends itself into irreparable debt, collapsing into a death spiral due to their own financial irresponsibility.This is the same corrupt behavior that George W. Bush demonstrated when he saddled the country with hundreds of millions more in crippling debt, thanks to the two wars he started without any plan as to how to pay for them. If fact, Republicans cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans, making the war debt even worse. Bush's people "solved" this by simply removing war expenditures from the budget, in effect pretending they didn't exist.The same thing is happening in red-state Kansas, which is the laboratory of tea-party ideology. Massive tax cuts were implemented without any plan to cover the budget shortfalls, plunging the state into its worst debt crisis ever. They are now having to close schools and cut critical services. Isn't it ironic that Conservative Republicans claim to be the party of financial responsibility, but they spend money without a thought as to where it's coming from or who's paying the bills.